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So tell me /his/, who's your favorite presocratic philosopher and master of thought ?
Absolutely Heraclitus
Solomon
>>1329384
Thales.
>Ancient Egyptians
>Black
>Ancient Egyptians
>Arab
>>1329311
Egyptians aren't even white or black. So, with that out of the way, who the fuck are they?
>>1329311
>ancient white egypt
WE
"Arab" is an umbrella term for nearly all Middle-Eastern Semites post-Mohammad.
So they're technically Arab according to the modern viewpoint of what constitutes an Arab.
Game: you get to start out in 1499, January. Any country of your choice.
You are allowed to bring as much as you can carry.
Wat do?
England because I speak the language. Bring a few lenses, beat Galileo and Kepler to the telescope, build optical telegraph, profit immensely.
>>1329366
Have fun getting burned at the stake.
>>1329411
You are actually retarded
lads, please explain to me why Hitler attacked his European neighbours.
I understand German nationalism.
I understand wanting a Reich.
I don't understand why he thought he needed the whole of Europe.
He didn't want it and he didn't attack it. Britain and France declared war on Germany.
>>1329302
what about Czechoslovakia and Poland?
He wanted "living space" for the German people. Basically, it was really trendy at the time to be isolationist and want to create a nation that was completely self-sufficient and wouldn't have to depend on any kind of trade to survive and prosper, and Germany, such as it was at the time, had a very high population relative to the amount of food that it produced and was heavily dependent on trade. Hitler invaded Poland so he could add all of that fertile farmland to his domains to freely redistribute to the German people, spread them out a bit, and make sure Germany...
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Is it a part of Europe?
>>1329204
In my opinion, only the Western portion belongs to it. As for the Eastern portion, that belongs to Southwest Asia.
its actually its own continent.
>>1329211
Agreed. Like including the eastern portion would be like including Africa because of the north part.
Hey /his/, sorry of this has been posted before.
Ive been studying the early half of the second world war and came across a plan from the German High Command for Operation Sea Lion (The invasion of Britain).
Was there ever any possible way for Germany to have a decisive victory had they attempted this?
Even if they could not have ever been successful in such a task, what could realistically be the best possible outcome for the Germans in such a scenario?
Also, if Sea Lion would have happen what would change about the second world war interns of length,...
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>>1329175
>Was there ever any possible way for Germany to have a decisive victory had they attempted this?
No. They didn't even have sufficient landing crafts and planned to transfer the majority of their troops through the English channel with what are essentially converted river barges. Even if they had air superiority over the channel, the landing still would have failed due to the overwhelming power of the Royal Navy.
With the way Germans were planning on transporting troops, all...
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>>1329194
Thanks so much for reading my thread and responding,
I also heard that a main problem with the landing was the fact that much of the German forces were still hours-drawn. Getting all those houses and equipment in old time boats would have been a nightmare.
To these problems, did the German high command have any solutions?
>>1329216
>To these problems, did the German high command have any solutions?
Their solution was abandoning the landing itself.
It was virtually impossible until either the Kriegsmarine is expanded large enough to win surface naval battles against the Royal Navy which will take many years, which was dangerous for the German economy unless they somehow win against the USSR. The other parts are not difficult problems if they can beat the Royal Navy, which was the big hurdle.
Was it autism?
>>1329130
The only thing autistic here is the continued insistence on the part of Bolivia to keep a "navy"
>>1329163
are you familiar with peruvian autism?
Starting University soon. Should I major in history?
>>1329127
Might as well, if it interests you.
You're just as likely to end up Jobless even if you fall for the STEM meme.
>>1329127
If you have a plan of what to do with it then yes
and I'm not just talking about teaching history, there's other things the skills you gain from history can translate to
>>1329127
Absolutely not, no money there. As a matter of fact, don't go to university at all unless you KNOW what you want to do. Otherwise shoot for the stars getting an internship or taking one of your productive hobbies very seriously.
Go out and volunteer at a dig site or museum if you want to do /his/ related stuff just to get your toes wet.
Ok /his, post ur Unit 731 pics/ sources here, let it rain!
>>1329101
Never happened
>>1329151
Those nips are fucked up
It's pretty clear the Chinese weren't going to stop them, so why did the Abbasids stop pushing east after Talas? Did they just think the area wasn't worth conquering?
>>1328972
Abbasids were already over-extended.
Note how Turks did most of the fighting for them.
Too far away from home.
Supply lines were already stretched bare, and at that point they'd be stretching onto where the Chinese were stronger, while becoming increasingly weaker.
My history professor stressed the imporatance of the Cavalry tactics of the Muslims as the reasons for failing to stretch farther into India and for the loss against the Franks at Tours, but I don't know how credible that is.
>>1328972
The Abbasids won at Talas because the local Tarlaks switched sides and helped them out.
Then, for reasons I'm not entirely clear on, they went back to Tang Cinese ocerlordship, at least until the An Lushan rebellion.
What was the difference between mamluks and janissaries?
>>1328968
Janies are infantry. Mamluks were cavalrymen.
Also Mamluks was an arab thing. The Caliphates started hiring/buying Turkic/Central Asian/Circassian People who are cavalry-wise in bulk and made them military slaves.
Due to the decline of the Abbasids this slave status became """""""""""slave"""""""""" status as they became breddy important in society. Eventually these """""""slaves"""""""""...
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>>1328968
the name
>>1328974
Mamluks werent as much a professional standing force as they were a class of "slaves" who then took over power.
Both are turkic warriors and it was a shame Selim had to waste so much time and turkic lives to get egypt under his control.
Also as another poster said Janissaries were multirole infantry forces, while mamluks were mostly horseback.
>Caused the king of france and the highest ranking HRE duke to turn back by being a petty ass hole
>Heavily taxed the church
>Split the forces of the remaining crusader army by still being a petty ass hole who refused to attack Jerusalem
>Assassinated the man he sold to cyprus to like a jew
>Most importantly lost
Why do christfags worship richard the lionheart?
Because there is basically none to worship from crusader pov.
They were all complete losers who lost everything that could be lost.
>>1328952
That's the ransom of Visby though. Basically Gotland lost a battle with Denmark in Visby (they have a famous mass grave where the slain were thrown in still wearing their armor), and the cunts have to pay of the Danes for not sacking Visby.
>>1328952
>Caused the king of france and the highest ranking HRE duke to turn back by being a petty ass hole
The French had no intention of going on crusade and the HRE only turned back because their leader died and the army fell apart. Hell, they fought a huge battle at Iconium.
>Split the forces of the remaining crusader army by still being a petty ass hole who refused to attack Jerusalem
More like didn't have the resources to pull...
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Is she the most important child in terms of history?
Who is this slag
>>1328824
hitler's youth
